Residential Counsellor
Responsibilities and Duties: Residential Counsellor
Responsible for teaching and/or assisting Participants with Adult Daily Living Skills
- Support Participants (adults with intellectual/physical disabilities) at home and in the community
- Teach, supervise, and support all activities of daily living
- Support individual and small groups of Participants in individual choices in all activities
- Encourage and organize activities that contribute to skill development, socialization, and fun
- Transport Participants in organizational vehicles
- Build positive, healthy relationships in the workplace
Work Environment
- Shift work including days, evenings, overnights, weekends
- 30 (part-time) or 77 (full-time) hours bi-weekly
- May include regularly scheduled overnight awake shifts
- May experience crisis situations, which place the safety and well-being of employees/participants in jeopardy
- May work singularly or in tandem with a Participant Support Worker
- May be required to lift in relation to household activities and physically assisting participants
- May be exposed to bodily fluids, viruses and common illness
Minimum Qualifications
- Preferred: University degree or a graduate of a recognized community college in Human Services or related program
- Asset: Possession or willingness to obtain all 7 Provincial Core Competencies (Fire & Life Safety, Health & Personal Care, Medication Awareness, Individual Program Planning, Crisis Intervention, Behavioural Supports, Standard First Aid/ CPR-C) & Food Handler’s certificate
- Asset: Experience working with or supporting people living with physical and/or intellectual disability
- Demonstrated experience developing appropriate relationships in a helping or supporting capacity
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Asset: Alternative communication abilities
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Required: Valid NS Driver’s License
- Required: Possession or willingness to attain Class 4 driver’s license
- Required: Acceptable Driving record/abstract
- Required: Suitable Criminal Records Check and Vulnerable Sector Search
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Job Types: Full-time (77 hours bi-weekly); Part-time (30, 60 hours bi-weekly) and Reserve (Casual)
Salary: $19.20/hour probationary; $20.63/hour + overnight and weekend shift premiums as applicable